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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
4
Washburn Wisconsin August 8 1907 advertisement announces advertising rates by Washburn Printing Co Editors Nels M Oscar. Entry filed with the Washburn post office as second class mail matter.
Street Commissioner Larson leads crews to cut noxious weeds including Canada thistle bur dock daisy snap dragon and related species. Property owners face fines of five dollars per day for each day weeds remain after notice to destroy them.
The recent legislative session passes laws to bar any person with pecuniary interest in public service contracts from holding town village or city office or being a stockholder in a related corporation. This acts to curb influence in municipal offices amid growing public scrutiny. In Bayfield County Iron River Dr A J Patterson buys former Taylor Institute stake and gains exclusive Taylor treatment rights across Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota. John MecMurchy runs the institute and notes rising patronage. Mrs K G Staples of Portland arrives for an indefinite visit at the Ripley home. A R Mead plans irrigation for strawberry beds to pay for itself next season. Frank Moore and neighbors press for a local post office, estimating access for over two hundred residents.
Mrs J H Huygener and children from Superior will visit relatives in Bayfield and Sand Island for weeks. Island View hotel now managed by J W Dowd. change effective Wednesday. A Duluth party staying at Madeline Island plans a summer home on property purchased there. A B Sayles sells Red Cliff boarding house to W W Fynn. Sayles couple move to Bayfield. Cement Walks under construction along Rittenhouse and Secord streets. J M Smith reports a bumper wheat crop and mid month harvest in Red River Valley area.
The piece promotes using newspaper space as a cost effective way to reach untapped customers when personal calls are impractical. It urges clear product description and price, warns against broad vague ads, and suggests imagining the reader as a target to tailor the message.
The Times presents a thirty six page supplement with all laws passed at the recent session and an index on the first page listing chapters by subject. Local business activity is reported as thriving and improving. Social event at Bayfield street hosted by ladies of the Norwegian M E church attracts many attendees. Mrs. Walter McBaine returns home after visit with her parents. An advertisement promotes Dean's Ointment for piles. Albert Christopherson and wife plan to move to Spooner. John Clark returns home from Ashland hospital after appendicitis treatment. friends welcome him back.
Oscar and sons begin a summer cottage on their bay shore farm south of the city and will occupy soon. A man intoxicated was arrested for wading on a new cement walk on west Bayfield street. Shepard moving pictures and songs to Opera House for three nights starting Aug 8. Dr Shoop’s Health Coffee advertised with prices. H J Finstad moves furniture into Meehan building next to Anderson’s shoe store. Mrs. P A Oscar and children leave for Ashland then home to Seattle. Hunting season opens next month. hunting licenses being issued, first applicant A H Hart of Mason. Dr. Shoop Health Coffee imitation advertised by Sela at Posey’s. Mr Shepard’s show to Duluth Lyceum circuit. Mrs John Walsh and daughter go to Chicago. Mr Walsh on Catholic Foresters committee. F J Meehan to launch jewelry sale and Five and Ten store plan. Kodol for Indigestion advertised at Sweets Drug Store. Final homestead proofs filed by Ansbaugh Swanby Rockstad and others. contest by Albert Bruner on Swanby land. contested as stone and timber claim. decision due within 30 days.
R A Gray a Justice of the Peace from Oakville Indiana recounts ten years bedridden by kidney disease. After exhausting doctors he found relief only after Foley's Kidney Cure which he calls a Godsend. The statement reflects a personal endorsement of the remedy.
A collection of curious animal behaviors and survival notes. Rats endure thirst three to four days while mice gnaw through inch pine in three hours. Squirrels bite harder than dogs. a PG buried seventeen days survives without food or water. Coons crack shells as easily as boys crack a peanut. rabbits see behind and ahead. foxes smell humans far away. weasels kill twenty to thirty hens in a coop if undisturbed. A mouse or rat missing a leg adapts to life.
An old section wide claim asserts catarrh is constitutional, not local, and Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio is offered as the solution. Internal dosing, blood and mucous action, $0.75 price, with a $100 pledge for cures and circulars available.
An advertisement claims most skin eruptions are from impure blood and promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a cleansing tonic that will make you clear-eyed clear-brained and clear-skinned.
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